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We propose, for multivariate Gaussian copula models with unknown margins and structured correlation matrices, a rank-based, semiparametrically efficient estimator for the Euclidean copula parameter. This estimator is defined as a one-step…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-10-02 Johan Segers , Ramon van den Akker , Bas J. M. Werker

A numerical method optimizing the coefficients of the semi empirical mass formula or those of similar mass formulas is presented. The optimization is based on the least-squares adjustments method and leads to the resolution of a linear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-02 Benyoucef Mohammed-Azizi , Hadj Mouloudj

Bayesian methods have been very successful in quantifying uncertainty in physics-based problems in parameter estimation and prediction. In these cases, physical measurements y are modeled as the best fit of a physics-based model…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-02-06 Dave Higdon , Jordan D. McDonnell , Nicolas Schunck , Jason Sarich , Stefan M. Wild

With ever increasing data rates produced by modern radio telescopes like LOFAR and future telescopes like the SKA, many data processing steps are overwhelmed by the amount of data that needs to be handled using limited compute resources.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Sarod Yatawatta

It is often observed that the probabilistic predictions given by a machine learning model can disagree with averaged actual outcomes on specific subsets of data, which is also known as the issue of miscalibration. It is responsible for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Feiyang Pan , Xiang Ao , Pingzhong Tang , Min Lu , Dapeng Liu , Lei Xiao , Qing He

The standard linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) framework assumes a Brownian noise process and relies on classical stochastic calculus tools, such as those based on It\^o calculus. In this paper, we solve a generalized linear quadratic optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Mostafa M. Shibl , Sharan Srinivasan , Harsha Honnappa , Vijay Gupta

Penalization procedures often suffer from their dependence on multiplying factors, whose optimal values are either unknown or hard to estimate from the data. We propose a completely data-driven calibration algorithm for this parameter in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-07-02 Sylvain Arlot , Pascal Massart

We consider the problem of estimation of a shift parameter of an unknown symmetric function in Gaussian white noise. We introduce a notion of semiparametric second-order efficiency and propose estimators that are semiparametrically…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 A. S. Dalalyan , G. K. Golubev , A. B. Tsybakov

We present a method for electronic structure calculations that retains all of the advantages of real space and addresses the inherent inefficiency of a regular grid, which has equal precision everywhere. The computations are carried out on…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Gil Zumbach , N. A. Modine , Efthimios Kaxiras

A key challenge in probabilistic regression is ensuring that predictive distributions accurately reflect true empirical uncertainty. Minimizing overall prediction error often encourages models to prioritize informativeness over calibration,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-17 Ádám Jung , Domokos M. Kelen , András A. Benczúr

The aim of this paper is to develop novel quantum algorithms for Gaussian process quadrature methods. Gaussian process quadratures are numerical integration methods where Gaussian processes are used as functional priors for the integrands…

Computation · Statistics 2025-02-21 Cristian A. Galvis-Florez , Ahmad Farooq , Simo Särkkä

Orthogonalization is one of few mathematical methods conforming to mathematical standards for approximation. Finding a consistent PC matrix of a given an inconsistent PC matrix is the main goal of a pairwise comparisons method. We introduce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Julio Benitez , Waldemar W. Koczkodaj , Adam Kowalczyk

The Log-Gaussian Cox Process is a commonly used model for the analysis of spatial point patterns. Fitting this model is difficult because of its doubly-stochastic property, i.e., it is an hierarchical combination of a Poisson process at the…

Computation · Statistics 2017-01-05 Ming Teng , Farouk S. Nathoo , Timothy D. Johnson

A significant hurdle for analyzing large sample data is the lack of effective statistical computing and inference methods. An emerging powerful approach for analyzing large sample data is subsampling, by which one takes a random subsample…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-24 Rong Zhu , Ping Ma , Michael W. Mahoney , Bin Yu

Copula-based modeling has seen rapid advances in recent years. However, in big data applications, the lengthy computation time for estimating copula parameters is a major difficulty. Here, we develop a novel method to speed computation time…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-20 Zheng Wei , Daeyoung Kim , Erin Marie Conlon

Optimal control theory and machine learning techniques are combined to formulate and solve in closed form an optimal control formulation of online learning from supervised examples with regularization of the updates. The connections with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Giorgio Gnecco , Alberto Bemporad , Marco Gori , Marcello Sanguineti

Two-phase sampling designs are frequently employed in epidemiological studies and large-scale health surveys. In such designs, certain variables are exclusively collected within a second-phase random subsample of the initial first-phase…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-25 Lingxiao Wang

State-of-the-art techniques for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) employ iterative nonlinear optimization methods to compute an estimate for robot poses. While these techniques often work well in practice, they do not provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Luca Carlone , David Rosen , Giuseppe Calafiore , John Leonard , Frank Dellaert

Likelihood-free Bayesian inference algorithms are popular methods for calibrating the parameters of complex, stochastic models, required when the likelihood of the observed data is intractable. These algorithms characteristically rely…

Computation · Statistics 2021-12-23 Thomas P Prescott , David J Warne , Ruth E Baker

Computable estimates for the error of finite element discretisations of parabolic problems in the $L^\infty(0,T; L^2)$ norm are developed, which exhibit constant effectivities (the ratio of the estimated error to the true error) with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Oliver J. Sutton